Rate My Professor Laurie Hatch

Hatch teaches a variety of literature courses at Vanguard University, including those centered on C.S. Lewis and Tolkien, and leads the English Department as chair. Her scholarly contributions include peer-reviewed articles such as 'Gerard Manley Hopkins and Victorian Approaches to the Problems of Perception: Affirming the Metaphysical in the Physical' published in Christianity & Literature 65.2 (2016), 'Reading Tommy Orange's There There as Crime Fiction: Identity and the Poetry of Urban Life' in Crime Fiction Studies 6.1 (2025), and 'Gerard Manley Hopkins' in Victorian Poetry 55.3 (2017). She also authored 'A Hopkins Bibliography 2003' in The Hopkins Quarterly 33.1/2 (2006) and presented 'Teaching Postwar Japanese Fiction' at the Modern Language Association convention in 2023. As editor of The Lamp-Post, a review of C.S. Lewis studies for the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society, she has facilitated scholarly discourse on Lewis scholarship through issues such as volumes 36.4/37.1 and 37.2 (2019). Hatch's research bridges scientific perception, metaphysics, and Victorian poetry, enriching literary studies with interdisciplinary insights.